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Mississippi, 593 U.S. ___ (2021), was a United States Supreme Court case regarding the imposition of life sentences for juveniles. The Supreme Court had previously ruled in Miller v. Alabama in 2012 that mandatory life sentences without parole for juvenile offenders was considered cruel and unusual punishment outside of extreme cases of ...
The Justice Department Civil Rights Division delivered its March 20, 2012, report directly to the governor's office and the court. It said that conditions at WGCF were "among the worst we have seen in any facility anywhere in the nation," characterizing both GEO and the MDOC's lassitude as ignoring the safety of young inmates, allowing a denial of required health care, and hiring guards who ...
MDHS owns the Columbia Training School, located in unincorporated Marion County, near Columbia, [10] [11] in southern Mississippi. [6] The state estimates that Columbia is a two and one half hour commute from the school to Gulfport. [12] Columbia is located between Hattiesburg and McComb. [6]
In a rare address to a federal court Wednesday, Mississippi Supreme Court Chief Justice Mike Randolph called efforts to attach him to a lawsuit challenging a new state law a “circus” with ...
To aid prison officials and parole boards in assessing candidates, the Bureau of Justice Assistance developed a science-based risk assessment instrument to apply. [8] By August 2009, some 3100 prisoners had been paroled from prison. The Board's use of the new risk assessment instrument resulted in their having a higher rate of parole approval.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a civil rights probe of Lexington, Mississippi's police department after reports of excessive force and discriminatory policing, a ...
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Harris County Juvenile Justice Center. The American juvenile justice system is the primary system used to handle minors who are convicted of criminal offenses. The system is composed of a federal and many separate state, territorial, and local jurisdictions, with states and the federal government sharing sovereign police power under the common authority of the United States Constitution.